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ENVIRONMENTAL
PROFILES, INC. is a multi-disciplined health,
safety and environmental consulting firm providing a wide range of occupational/life
safety, industrial hygiene and environmental services on a national basis.
We are committed to helping provide our clients strategies and opportunities
to maintain the best possible working environments through effective health,
safety and environmental programs. Our goal is to provide the client with
effective tools and programs that will be applied in a meaningful way to best
protect human health, safety and the environment.
Environmental Profiles was founded in 1993. We now occupy a lovingly restored historic building in downtown Catonsville, Maryland. Poised between Baltimore and Washington, DC, Environmental Profiles serves clients ranging from multinational corporations to small businesses.
We maintain close ties with the community we share. Our annual activities include sponsorship of the Brave Dave golf tournament, devoted to raising money for the Maryland Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Autoimmune-Related Disease Association. We have been in the forefront of the movement to convert scrapped ships into artificial reefs, creating new environments for aquatic life and new destinations for recreational divers. We are an active supporter of N.E.S.T., the Network for Endangered Sea Turtles. And we are frequent participants in civic activities in the Catonsville area. In addition, Environmental Profiles' president, John W. Spencer, serves as a member of the Baltimore County Advisory Commission on Environmental Quality.
Our clients have included:
John W. Spencer has been an industrial hygienist for more than 27 years and has been President of Environmental Profiles since 1993. Prior to that he was Vice President of National Medical Advisory Services in Bethesda, Maryland, and President of DMW Environmental Services, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland. As team leader/industrial hygienist for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), National Occupational Exposure Survey, he conducted research and audits of several hundred manufacturing, health care and other businesses throughout the United States. As an industrial hygienist for the United States Coast Guard, he conducted thousands of exposure assessments inclusive of a wide range of products, including numerous asbestos-containing materials. His responsibilities also included the management of the occupational medical monitoring program for the 5th Coast Guard District.
John is a past President of the Chesapeake Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). He has served as a member on the National AIHA Emergency Response Planning Committee and the AIHA Product Health and Safety Committee.
He is the author of the Health and Safety Audits Manual, published by Government Institutes, and the AIHA Hazard Communication Guide, published by the AIHA. He was an editor of the AIHA's ERPG and WEEL Handbook.
Leonard G. Burrelli is a project manager for Environmental Profiles, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Master of Science degree in management from the University of Maryland University College and his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Bucknell University. Mr. Burrelli has over 20 years of experience as a technical and executive manager in the Environmental, Health & Safety consulting industry. He is responsible for the design and implementation of procedures for technical project oversight as well as project management duties. Current duties include development and implementation of Product Evaluation Profile studies, Indoor Air Quality investigations, environmental site assessments, hazardous materials investigations, and document reviews for technical accuracy.
Mr. Burrelli has extensive laboratory experiences including microanalytical techniques for materials characterization utilizing both light and electron microscopes. He participated in the U.S. EPA committee for development of the TEM protocol under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. Prior to joining EPI, he was the primary point-of-contact for Industrial Hygiene/EH&S task contracts at the DoD Pentagon, the National Institutes of Health and the Library of Congress.
Publications by Mr. Burrelli include the Environmental Deal Busters For REITs, and REITs Uphold Environmental Responsibility, (The Corridor Real Estate Journal). Since 1995, he has been an instructor for the Environmental Health And Safety Issues course, for the Real Property Administrator (RPA) and Facilities Management Administrator (FMA) programs conducted by the Building Owners and Managers Institute. He has presented platform and poster sessions at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition on numerous occasions and was awarded “Best Platform Presentation” by the Sampling and Analysis Committee at the conference in New Orleans, LA, June 2001.
Dale Johnson is a senior project manager for Environmental Profiles, Inc. He is a board certified industrial hygienist and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of South Florida. Mr. Johnson has 17 years of broad-based industrial hygiene and safety experience. He has conducted audits of several hundred locations, including manufacturing facilities, health care centers, government installations, and other commercial businesses throughout the United States. As an industrial hygienist for the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company, he provided and directed exposure assessments involving a wide range of chemical and physical agents in the workplace. He is experienced in investigating, characterizing and addressing safety and health issues, which includes extensive ergonomics applications from both the consulting and manufacturing perspective. His background also includes the development and management of safety and health programs and corresponding training programs. Mr. Johnson participated in the reorganization strategy of the SH&E management division of the FAA, provided technical guidance to the Safety, Health and Environmental Management Division of the EPA, as well as developing a safety and health department for two new private company locations.
Mark L. Nealley is a senior project manager for Environmental Profiles. He is a board certified industrial hygienist and has received his Master of Science degree in Environmental Biology from Hood College and his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Delaware. Mr. Nealley has 15 years of diverse industrial hygiene experience. As a senior project manager for Environmental Profiles, Mr. Nealley has worked on numerous exposure assessment projects involving a wide variety of exposure scenarios and chemical compounds. These exposure assessments have utilized data from the published literature as well as air sampling and modeling techniques.
Over the past 7 years, he has performed human health and ecological risk assessments for a wide variety of industry clients examining both direct and indirect risks from air emissions. He has coauthored/presented several papers related to human health risks from hazardous waste combustion facilities and peer reviewed the ATSDR’s Public Health Reviews of Hazardous Waste Thermal Treatment Technologies. Prior to his industrial hygiene and environmental consulting work, Mr. Nealley was involved in aerosol research studies at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease.
Marc J. Plisko is a senior project manager for Environmental Profiles, Inc. He is a board certified industrial hygienist and has received his Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and Engineering Sciences from Drexel University. Mr. Plisko has 14 years of broad industrial hygiene experience. As a senior project manager for Environmental Profiles, Mr. Plisko has participated in numerous exposure assessment projects involving a variety of workplaces and chemical compounds. Most recently he was involved in the preparation of a decommissioned U.S. Navy vessel for sinking as an artificial reef. Activities related to this project included a vessel characterization study, preparation and evaluation of safety, health and environmental plans, and evaluations of worker exposure during the vessel decontamination procedures. This vessel, the ex-USS Spiegel Grove, was the largest ship ever intentionally scuttled for use as an artificial marine habitat.
During the past 7 years, he has provided technical support and consulting services to companies in both the industrial and maritime sectors. Such support has included site inspections, vessel inspections, worksite analysis, exposure assessments, preparation of technical compliance plans, and, safety and health program auditing. He has coauthored/presented several peer-reviewed papers/poster presentations related to safety and health auditing and occupational exposure assessments.
Cindy Lynn Richard is the Director of Risk Communication for Environmental Profiles, Inc, Baltimore, Maryland. She has focused on risk communication, and issues management since 1989. Ms. Richard utilizes proven communications strategies and her technical expertise in occupational health and environmental risk assessment to assist senior scientists, government officials, and business leaders through high stress, media, and public communications.
As an independent consultant, Ms. Richard has focused on public outreach and regulation related to (1) low-level environmental exposures, (2) agricultural and urban pest control methods, (3) food and agricultural biotechnology, and (4) numerous workplace and environmental exposures issues. Ms. Richard has worked with international visitors, U.S. and international government officials, and technology leaders to develop and implement effective strategies to bring technical information into public discussions.
Fall 2004, Ms. Richard served as an environmental and communication advisor to the Thai Department of Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand at the request of the U.S. Department of State. For the four years prior to this, she worked as the Biotechnology Communications Coordinator and Program Manager for the non-profit organization, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology where she provided risk communication training for volunteer science communicators, coordinated interdisciplinary reviews, public meetings, and international educational programs including the Sino-U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Safety Assessment Cooperation.
Ms. Richard was the Senior Scientist in a risk communication firm, where her role was to provide technically accurate and innovative issues management and risk communication services to influence public understanding of issues related to evolving technologies and human exposures. Prior to this she was a Senior Scientist with a firm of physicians, and toxicologists. Before entering consulting, she served as a senior industrial hygienist with the Johns Hopkins Institutions Office of Safety and Environmental Health. Early in her career, she focused on neurotoxicology research.
Ms. Richard has a degree in Biology from Goucher College and maintains certification in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
Bruce Lippy is a senior consultant with Environmental Profiles, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in policy from the University of Maryland, with coursework concentrated in economics and quantitative measures of management. His undergraduate degree is a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Western Maryland College. He is board certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene and is a certified safety professional. His 27 years working as an industrial hygienist for the private sector, labor unions, and federal and state governments has afforded him broad experience. He has performed hundreds of industrial hygiene audits, in this country and abroad, for a wide range of agents, including asbestos, lead, organic solvents, mold, indoor air contaminants, and noise.
His experience as the president of two laboratories provided significant expertise in the analysis of asbestos, by optical and electron microscopy. He has written and lectured widely on the subject of indoor air quality, including developing guidance documents for the State of Maryland. He was instrumental in helping the Department of Energy to communicate the risks of their new technologies for cleaning up environmental contamination to the workers who operated and maintained the equipment. He has recently provided technical expertise to the federal government on the health and safety hazards of nanotechnologies.
His previous employment includes directing the National Clearinghouse for
Worker Safety and Health Training through a grant from the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences.
He also worked as part of the hazmat team of the International Union of Operating
Engineers and directed the industrial hygiene effort for the heavy equipment
operators at the World Trade Center response, distributing respirators and
collecting samples. Prior to that, he worked for several consulting firms,
managed the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland’s
School of Medicine and coordinated training for the Maryland Occupational
Safety and Health agency.
He currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Training and Data Exchange (TRADE) committee, the HAMMER facility’s Medical Surveillance Subcommittee, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Nanoscale Environment and Health Initiative, the Chesapeake Region Safety Council’s Advisory Board, Catonsville Community College’s Health and Safety Program Advisory Board, the National Response Team’s Training and Health & Safety committees, and the EPA-Labor Superfund Task Force.
He has given over fifty professionals presentations, co-authored nine articles in peer-reviewed journals and written chapters for the Levy and Sidel 2002 text, “Terrorism and Public Health” and the 1991 Peters and Peters Sourcebook on Asbestos Disease.
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